File contains an article about the Marillac Center, a mental health center for children, a product of the Kansas City Orphan Boys' Home originally in Westport, merged with orphan girls' homes, and now...

Article about Kansas City's high rate of rape yet "one of the most innovative cities in creating community education measures and treatment centers," with facilities such as the Rape Treatment Center at...

Clippings about several charitable organizations and individuals, including the Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations, the Florence Crittenton home for black girls, the Mental Health Foundation,...

History of Comprehensive Mental Health Services, formerly Northeastern Jackson County Mental Health Center, founded in 1969. Further information is provided in a Missouri First-Person Interview with CMHS...

Study updating the previous National Study Service's Survey on Children's Agencies Needs and Service (SCANS), evaluating services for troubled children in Jackson County through juvenile correction, schools,...

Portrait believed to be Dr. H. M. Hardwicke, an assistant in Missouri's Public Health, Welfare and Mental Diseases Departments. He spoke at the luncheon meeting of December 1, 1959, held at the World War...

History mainly of Hospital Hill, home of the city's first public hospital in 1870, but now a complex including Truman Medical Center, Children's Mercy Hospital, Western Missouri Mental Health Center, the...

This book contains one page personal accounts of the lives of numerous women from the Kansas City metro area, as well as their photograph. Includes Jo Ann Field, Chairman, International Advisory Board,...

Article about the federal and state enforcement of prohibition of alcohol in Kansas, describing its history of problems along the Missouri border near Kansas City, Saint Joseph, and Joplin, Missouri, with...

Photos and information on the Kansas City Mental Health Foundation, established in 1950 "as a non-profit corporation, to establish and operate faciliites for the prevention and treatment of mental disorders,...